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comedy of intrigue

…Le Médecin malgré lui (1666; The Doctor in Spite of Himself), which begins as a farce based on the simple joke of mistaking the ne’er-do-well woodcutter Sganarelle for a doctor, gradually becomes a satire on learned pretension and bourgeois credulity as Sganarelle fulfills his role as a doctor with great…